That's My Weakness Now
Performed by The Paul Whiteman Orchestra
Part One: The Bix Pieces
Part Two: Why They Were Made
Part Three: Once Again
Isabel Garcia-Lorca, Kenneth Rinker, Sara Rudner, Twyla Tharp, Rose Marie Wright
Performed on November 11, 1971 in Paris under the title True Confessions by Twyla Tharp, Sara Rudner, Rose Marie Wright, Isabel Garcia-Lorca, Kenneth Rinker, Mary Curry and Naomi Cohn.
The Bix Pieces is Tharp's first theatrical dance work combining dance, music and spoken dramatic text. The legato movement slips from section to section, building from solo to duet, trio to quartet. A speaker onstage delivers a scripted lecture-demonstration, written by Tharp, while the dancers perform the final section.
Video of the first performance of The Bix Pieces in Paris exists in the archives, along with hundreds of hours of undigitized rehearsal and performance footage. See The Bix Pieces on Camera 3 for a later recording.
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Rudner and Tharp perform at the Roundhouse in London in 1974.
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Tharp performs in Paris in 1971.
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Garcia-Lorca, Tharp, Wright and Rudner perform at the Delacorte Theatre in 1972.
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1. In The Mist
By Bix Beiderbecke - 1927
From the Album "The Bix Beiderbecke Story, Vol.3, Whiteman Days"
Published by EMI
2. 'Tain't So Honey, 'Tain't So
By Willard Robinson - 1928
Performed by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra
Published by Columbia Records
3. That's My Weakness Now
By Bud Green and Sam Stept - 1928
Performed by The Paul Whiteman Orchestra
Published by Columbia Records
4. Borneo
By Walter Donaldson
Performed by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra
Published by Okeh Records
5. Because My Baby Don't Mean Maybe Now
By Walter Donaldson - 1928
Performed by The Paul Whiteman Orchestra
Published by Columbia Records
6. I Want To Be Happy
By Vincent Youmans and Irving Caesar
For the musical "No, No, Nanette" - 1925
Published by Columbia Records
7. OPUS 76 no. 3 Adagio
Composed by Joseph Haydn - 1796
8. Abide With Me
By William Henry Monk and Henry Francis Lyte - 1847
Performed by Thelonius Monk
Published by Riverside Records
That's My Weakness Now
Performed by The Paul Whiteman Orchestra